BIRTH OF APPLE. FROM NOTHING TO EVERYTHING .
Steve jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California.
He was born to two young college students who go by the names
Abdulfattah and Joanne Schieble who at the time could not take care of him. Baby Steve was given up for adoption to a machanic and his wife who go by the names Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara Hagopian Jobs respectively. His adopted parents made a promise to themselves that, Steve will grow up and attend college, no matter the cost. At the time, everything seem normal but growing up, Steve made things difficult. While in the sixth grade, Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak who will later become the co-founder of Apple in some years to come.
When it was time for Steve to attend college, he wanted to attend Reed College despite it's expensive fees . Steves parents tried thier best efforts and finally sent Steve to Reed College in Portland, Oregon . While in college, Steve got bored and droped out in the fist semester of which his parents knew nothing about. While in the campus of Reed college, Steve attended the calligraphy class that later influenced Macintosh typography
out of interest. Because Steve dropped out, he had to sleep on the floor in his freinds room and also had to depend on free meals from the Hare Krishna temple.
Steve jobs later return home to his parents after that year.
in1974, Steve Jobs takes a job as a technician at Atari to save money for a spiritual trip to India. He Travels to India with his friend Daniel Kottke. He later returns as a Buddhist with a shaved head, and begins experimenting with psychedelics and austere diets.
The Birth Of Apple
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Steve jobs started his journey of Success in a small garage on April 1st, 1976 with his partner steve Wozniak.
In the year 1975, Steve Jobs attends a meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak his friend and future partner. In this meeting, Steve Jobs saw the need for him to change the world with his inventions. Later in the year 1976 ,Jobs and Wozniak did not have money to fund the computer they both dreamed of building. Driven by their ambitions and desire to succeed, they funded their project by the sale of Jobs's Volks Wagen bus and Wozniak's calculator. This sacrifice lead to the Creation of the Apple I computer which was the first ever Apple computer to be built. Jobs insisted that, they start a company so, on the April 1, 1976, in the garage of Jobs's parents' house in Los Altos, California the Apple Company was born
The Rise of Apple
In 1977, The Apple II, designed by Wozniak and marketed by Jobs, was introduced to the world. It became the first mass-market, user-friendly personal computer and a huge success, making Apple a major company.
At long last in the year 1980, Apple goes public, making Jobs a multimillionaire at age 25 with the fast sales of the Apple II computer. Jobs and Wozniak wanted to grow their company further and in the year 1984 , they lunched the Apple III which was a huge failure due to its high price and slow system. This led to the loss of millions for the Apple Company. Jobs and Wozniak, partned with John Sculley who invested alot in the company and later became the C.E.O . After some years, through dedication and hard work, steve Jobs developed and launched the Macintosh which was the first computer with it's own graphic user interface (G.U.I) and a mouse.Its revolutionary debut commercial airs during the Super Bowl.
IN 1985, there was a miss management of the company. That was when chaos struck and Jobs wanted the company he once built from his parents garage . During the struggle for power, Sculley over powered Jobs and Jobs had to resign from the company he once built.
The Big Come Back
·1985 was the year that Steve Jobs rebuilt himself again from scratch to a millionaire. Jobs Found and started NeXT Computer which, aimed to building a high-end computer for education and business. The machines were technologically advanced but commercially unsuccessful.
In 1986, Jobs Purchased the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm for $10 million and renamed it Pixar Animation Studios. He funded it for a decade as it developed revolutionary 3D animation technology.
Apple was struggling and near bankruptcy, in 1996 and had no other choice than to partener with next. In this way, Jobs returned to Apple and swiftly maneuvered his to becoming C.E.O by buying the company from Apple.
The Sunrise Of Apple And The sunset Of Steve Jobs
As the new owner of Apple, Steve Jobs introduced in
1998 the iMac, a brightly colored, all-in-one computer that becomes a design icon and saved Apple's consumer division. Under his leadership in 2001- 2003, Apple
Opened the first Apple Retail Stores and launches the iPod, revolutionizing the music industry and in
2003, Introduces the iTunes Store, creating a legal, seamless ecosystem for music.
In 2004, disaster struck. Jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer—a neuroendocrine tumor. Initially, Jobs resisted conventional surgery for nine months, pursuing alternative treatments.
Steve jobs Delivers his iconic Stanford commencement speech, famously urging graduates to "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish in 2005 and in 2007, jobs Unveils the iPhone, calling it "a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough Internet communicator." It redefines the smartphone and entire industries.
Later, in 2010 jobs again stunned the word by introducing the iPad, creating the modern tablet market.
Final Departure and Death
August 24, 2011 Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple, recommending Tim Cook as his successor.
· Sadly on October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs dies at his home in Palo Alto, California, at the age of 56, due to complications from the pancreatic cancer he had battled since 2004. His death is met with a global outpouring of tributes.
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